xx, 319 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index

Urbanization and southern culture: economic elites in four new south cities (Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile), c. 1865-1910 / Don Harrison Doyle -- Elites and municipal politics and government in Atlanta, 1847-1890 / James M. Russell -- Plans dat comed from God: institution building and the emergence of black leadership in reconstruction Memphis / Armstead L. Robinson -- Together in Egypt: a pattern of race relations in Cairo, Illinois, 1865-1915 / Joanne Wheeler -- Race, occupation, and literacy in reconstruction Washington, D.C. / Lois E. Horton and James Oliver Horton -- The rise and fall of Afro-American town life: town and country in reconstruction Edgefield, South Carolina / Orville Vernon Burton -- Murder in Graniteville / Tom E. Terrill -- The Christ craze of 1889: a millennial response to economic and social change / Thomas F. Armstrong -- Plantations and power: emancipation on the David Barrow plantations / J. William Harris -- The squad system on postbellum cotton plantations / Ralph Shlomowitz -- Community, region, and hegemony in the nineteenth-century south / Robert C. McMath, Jr

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